Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seventh-floor Secretary's office at the State Department watching Bush conduct his first press conference as President. "Pull up your tie, George," says Baker affectionately to the TV screen. "And be careful with the F.M.L.N. question." But no one asks about the peace proposal offered by the leftist guerrilla group in El Salvador that calls itself the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, so Baker responds to an imagined query. He has changed course...
...emergence of leftist insurrection shocked Argentines and revived fears that haunt the nation. As military analyst Andres Fontana put it, "People don't want a return to terrorism, and they don't want to give any space back to the military." A visibly shaken President Raul Alfonsin sought to quell any speculation that Argentina might be returning to the bloody ideological battles of the 1970s. "This is our opportunity to demonstrate to the world that we have learned from our past," he counseled...
...nothing in the past decade has troubled Argentina so much as the struggle to come to terms with the wanton brutality of the "dirty war," when an unchecked military visited a barbaric brand of justice on thousands of leftist rebels and their presumed sympathizers. Since 1983, when Alfonsin assumed power, his main political challenge has been to reconcile the populace's demand for justice against military excesses with the army's own demand for respect and recognition of its role in putting down a Communist insurgency. Over the past 22 months, disgruntled colonels have staged three uprisings, demanding pay raises...
Afghanistan's war-weary people wonder when, not if, the Moscow-backed regime of President Najibullah will fall. -- A leftist attack reawakens Argentina's ugly memories of the 1970s. -- Nicaragua's Ortega says he is ready to make peace with Washington. -- The Soviet Union's first contested elections bring confusion and conflict...
...extraordinary confession, reporter A. Kent MacDougall says that during his 24 years as a journalist he was a secret leftist "boring from within...